December 28 is the 362nd day of the year (363rd in 
leap years) in the 
Gregorian Calendar, with 3 days remaining.
Events
Births
- 1856 - Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States (+ 1924)
 - 1879 - Billy Mitchell, military aviation pioneer (+ 1936)
 - 1882 - Arthur Eddington, astronomer and physicist (+ 1944)
 - 1888 - Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, film director (+ 1931)
 - 1902 - Mortimer Adler, philosopher
 - 1903 - Earl "Fatha" Hines[?], jazz musician (+ 1983)
 - 1905 - Cliff Arquette[?], actor, comedian ("Charley Weaver") (+ 1974)
 - 1908 - Lew Ayres, actor (+ 1996)
 - 1922 - Stan Lee, comic book writer
 - 1925 - Hildegard Knef, actress, singer and writer
 - 1929 - Owen Bieber[?], labor leader
 - 1932 - Roy Hattersley, British politician
 - 1932 - Manuel Puig[?], writer (+ 1990)
 - 1934 - Maggie Smith, actress
 - 1946 - Edgar Winter[?], musician
 - 1953 - Richard Clayderman[?], pianist
 - 1954 - Denzel Washington, actor
 - 1969 - Linus Torvalds, programmer and initiator of Linux
 
Deaths
- 1694 - Queen Mary II of England
 - 1937 - Maurice Ravel, composer
 - 1938 - Florence Lawrence, Hollywood's first "star" 
 - 1945 - Theodore Dreiser, author
 - 1947 - King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy
 - 1963 - Paul Hindemith, German composer
 - 1981 - Allan Dwan, pioneer film director 
 - 1983 - William Demarest[?], actor
 - 1983 - Jimmy Demaret[?], golf champion
 - 1983 - Dennis Wilson[?], musician ("The Beach Boys")
 - 1984 - Sam Peckinpah, film director
 - 1986 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian movie director
 - 1999 - Clayton Moore[?], actor (The Lone Ranger)
 - 2001 - William X. Kienzle[?], novelist
 
Holidays and observances
- Catholicism: Massacre of the Saint Innocents
 - Fools' day in Spain (no April Fool's Day there)
 
See Also:
December 27 - December 29 - November 28 - January 28 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July,
August, September, October, November, December
 
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